ChatGPT - Nice!

[XR250]

Just tried it out today "proofreading" a report I hurried thru that was basically just bullet points. It is amazing how nice of a report it created.
Man, I cannot even fathom the job losses that are coming.

 

[phamENG]

I've been contemplating using it for reports. Feed in all my reports from the last several years to train it on my general style and tone (see if it works, anyway), and then feed in a list of bullet points and associated image files and see what it gives me. I have a project coming up in a couple weeks that will be a good test for it. Worst that happens is it's complete garbage and I've only lost an hour or two of experimenting, and then I write the report normally.

 

[benny12]

I am finding it incredibly helpful for marketing tasks, mostly because I’m good at technical writing not marketing BS. Example: we needed a new tag line for one of our services, 4 of us were supposed to give a few options each. I submitted 4, all AI generated and of the 14 to 16 options my 4 were clear front runners.

I also used it to validate a complex probability calculation, but relied on my calc not the AI. I don’t know when I will cite AI in a report, but I bet it will happen before I retire.

 

[phamENG]

I don’t know when I will cite AI in a report, but I bet it will happen before I retire.

Meh. I would still never cite Wikipedia. The sources cited in Wikipedia? Sure. But an encyclopedia isn't a source...it's a background. AI is similar (for now). It will digest information and spit it out again...hopefully in a usable format. But the good ones cite their sources for the regurgitation. So if I want to really use it, I'll go to those sites. So in those instances it's more like a hyper focused search engine.

Will it change? Probably. Certainly. But we have a very long way to go before it'll be able to reason its way into being a source in and of itself.

I'll use it to summarize information - it's come in handy for executive summaries of reports (I hate trying to pare down a technical report for easy reading by non-technical individuals...doable, but not my favorite task)...so I'm interested in pushing what I perceive as its current boundaries within my little slice of the world. So I won't let it give me content for a report, but I'll let it manipulate my content into a report for me to proof read.

 

[Ron247]

Even if it generates a report or document that needs close scrutiny and proofing, unless you type 1,000 words a minute, it is probably well worth it. Getting wording just right sometimes take more time than we imagine.

 

[CWB1]

Man, I cannot even fathom the job losses that are coming.

In roles with no IP or privacy concerns sure, but machine learning cant perform higher-order functions like language without sacrificing security/privacy so wont be adopted in most professional roles anytime soon. It's like cloud-based CAD/other apps, a good but impractical idea that bozos brag about until fired for using.

 

[LOTE]

no IP or privacy concerns

I think this risk overstated especially if you are using a paid version and elect for it not to train using your data. It would be no different than storing your files on Onedrive/dropbox/Shareppint, etc. (actually if you read their terms and conditions, paid ChatGPT may be a safer place to store private files).

If you are using the free version, then you are the product. Any app that is free exploits your data, otherwise it wouldn't be free.

 

[XR250]

My friend - who turned me on to ChatGPT is an unemployed Technical Writer. Says it is hard to get a job in that field right now as the current ones are so much more efficient now because of ChatGPT, that less are needed.

 

[1503-44]

Careful. I've found that when there is not a lot of information about a subject on the internet, it gets weak. And if there is a lot of information on the internet, but that information is not very accurate, AI often thinks it is. It's only as good as the information it was trained on.

Yesterday it was trying to tell me that v = 2gh
It forgot "the square root of" (2gh).

 

[CWB1]

I think this risk overstated especially if you are using a paid version and elect for it not to train using your data. It would be no different than storing your files on Onedrive/dropbox/Shareppint, etc.

Outside of a few tiny/new/odd companies, nobody considers those servers secure nor allows staff or suppliers to use them. Most companies connect the Sharepoint/Onedrive/etc frontend to their own or dedicated, leased servers with their own security/encryption bc its both more secure and cheaper. The appearance is the same and users can access via either online or local versions of apps, but the data is stored/controlled internally.

Its occasionally a problem/lawsuit in the private sector, but govt agencies have struggled with suppliers using the stock MS/other services. Govt does a ton of outsourcing, doesnt do the diligence in vetting suppliers like industry does, has special budgets for hiring tiny/new/odd companies, and other challenges.....plus legal statutes requiring strict control of data.